Poor I may be without dishonour; live at another man's cost I cannot do without baseness.

It does not require to be 'gentilhomme' to feel that: it is enough to be a Frenchman.

Come and see me when you can spare the time.
There is my address.

You are the only man in Paris to whom I shall be at home.

Au revoir." And breaking away from Lemercier's clasp, the Marquis hurried off..